Typing Speed Test - Measure Your WPM and Accuracy Online
Typing Speed Test
Find out how fast and how accurately you type
Net and Raw Speed
Your WPM counts only correct characters, five to a word, so errors cost you. The raw figure shows how fast your fingers moved, mistakes included.
Accuracy That Remembers
Accuracy counts every wrong keystroke, even ones you corrected with backspace, so it shows how clean your typing really was.
Timed or Single Passage
Race a 30, 60 or 120 second clock with a steady supply of text, or type one short passage from start to finish.
Personal Best
Your best speed for each test length is remembered in this browser, so you can see your progress. Nothing is sent anywhere.
What a Good Speed Looks Like
The average adult types around 40 words per minute. Office work is usually comfortable at 50 to 70, professional typists and many programmers reach 80 to 100, and competitive typists go well beyond that. Accuracy matters as much as speed: someone at 60 WPM with 98 percent accuracy produces a finished document faster than someone at 80 WPM with 90 percent, because correcting errors takes longer than typing them did.
To improve, slow down until you are accurate, then build speed gradually. Look at the text rather than your hands, use all ten fingers, and keep a steady rhythm instead of typing in bursts. Short, regular practice of ten to fifteen minutes a day works better than one long session. Results vary with your keyboard, the text and how tired you are, so compare several runs rather than a single one. This test asks you to type the text exactly as shown, including capitals, punctuation and accents.
Key Takeaways
- How WPM is counted: Correct characters divided by five, per minute of typing; pasting is disabled.
- Texts: Eight original passages in each language, picked at random.
- Related tools: See also the Pomodoro Timer and the Word Counter.